The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-17
Wkxe AtaGelha1suts5
yiiGti.lS0, ". VA, JANUARY II, 1887
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
For NAYoR-R u. DJVESER, U-
Fos CITY CLKnK-FRASK v. HoWEas.
/ FoE city sEEGEAsT-TllOMA9 y. BENNETT.
Foe WHARF MAsrEH-1iESRr SFAM0s.
why Republicans VIII Not Help Dir. Cam.

WAY Republicans VIII Not Help Dir. Cam.
Senator CamG0n and bis friends conf.
IDENTIFY claimed that there would certainly
be enough Republican votes to make up
for the revolt in tho Democratic ranks.
Whether they really did expect to COM
mand the necessary Republican support
in the Legislature, or whether their claim
was merely Il matter OF tactics to drive the
Democratic wanderers back into the fold,
only themselves know. 1t Is u little sig.
nifcsut that the number oil Republican
votes claimed by them is just the number
OF Democrats WHO have threatened to re.
N lin ont OF cancus and to vote against
Mr.. Camden on the open ballot.
It is beyond denial that Mr.. Camden
has many perponat friends in the Repnb.
lican party, and Some Of them are in the
present Legislature There are few pub.
lie men who have moro or stronger friend
ship, among political oppcnen'a. Mr..
Camden has an easy way Of meeting men
rs they come ard OF making himself ono
OF any company no happens in. In his
c)ntect with lis iellows there is no az.
sumption Of superiority such az is often
on in men in high public station snd
sin oitener in men Of large wealth. Mr..
G ,mden han it in his power to pay many
p ,lite astea,iors, and it is only fair to say
TINT o Republican is "a likely as Dsmo-
C at TO receive such attention from him.
lis not to BIO supposed that in all these
things Mr.. Camden has an eye single to
his public career; they are rather the out.
c,ne OF kindly and uoc;al nature. Yet
a. these things help to make friends for
th,msn. Theirs is, however, wide and
ea,ily appreciated difference between the
m III and thu politician, and nobody makes
tn, distinction more sharply and cou.
clusvoly than Mr.. Camden himself. In a
political contest Mr.. Camden is on the
Democratic sid, every tine; he is there
with his men and lila money, and he is
s1rswd eacuEh to ure both to g:est nd
vintage. Tnis may be accepted IS his
notion Of what pnrty man onght to Dc.
T as Republic N party 10 West Virginia
has gtown. grown in the face Of many OBJ
sta lies and to the increasing surprise Of
Dsm,c.ats. II has p.otited not only by
i'm Migration and the assimilation OF
Gr,' nhsckera, but by accessio:s from the
opposition. These sccessions would havo
been greater II the ''nomething in a name"
had Lot repealed msn who give their as
sent to Republic principles, but have not
as yet bssn able to bring themselves TO
cci with party which opposed them on
the slavery question and on the war issue,
AM which they sill hold in unpleasant
remembrance on account Of proaciptive
legislation growing out Of the war. Blu.
By common consent tho war Is over, and
men sre looking more tomorrow than to
yesterday.
There arc mon in the Democratic party
who are not in sympathy with it, and
they ara stepping out to act with the only
party that is able to effect anything as
against tho Democracy whether in State
or National atairs. The growth from all
sou.ces and al causes has reduced the
Democratic majority in tho Legislature to
seven, and the popular majority in the
Stats on the vote for Congressman to seven
hundred. Here is presented situation
very interesting to both partioa, and both
appreciate it. .Gtll
at such time only disloyal or wild
Republican will DO or couutenanco any
thing that wouldimpsir the integrity Of the
Republican iorcea. For Republicans to
return to The United States Senate the
very head and front OF tho Democratic
machine in West Virginia-ths man who
in the two elections last past has turned
tho trembling balances against them
would be to divide and disable, If not to
di5integrate, the Republican iorces. II I
thia were done, in tho next campaign the
Republican flag would float over mob.
There would be horde without responsi-
BILE leadership, leaders without organized,
responsive following, and if the Democ.
racy did not hayo an easy victory 1t would !
be owing to some surprising idiocy Of its
own. :, -
{ It may be that Tie revolt in the Demo
cratic ranks will amount to nothing. Pos.
sibly every dissatisfied Democrat in the
Legislature will at last lie PROSTATE at
Mr.. Camden's feet, begging for mercy and
hoping for pardon. >That'His tho affair OF
the Democracy. The ISrELLloEScER be.
loves it to be IS certain as anything can
be, that Mr.. Camden cannot get enough
Rspublicansy votes to o!ect him more than
that, that he cannot get single Republi-
can vote. The INrELLlGENcER has been
unable to find one Republican who is
willing toweaken his party to oblige Mr.. |
Camden. The vote for United States Ssns.
toris record that cannot be amended or
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